Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Truck Show is held in Newark because Newark is the nation's greatest highway freight centre, because Jack Winchester wants it there and because Newark's vast municipal Center Market Building can be rented cheap. On its two dank floors last week gleamed and glistened a collection of trucks, bodies, trailers, engines and accessories from 60 leading U. S. manufacturers. As in the Automobile Show, the exhibits included gadgets, displays, sections of engines, cinema demonstrations. Unlike the Automobile Show, the Truck Show's exhibits were aimed not at the general public but at the comparative few whose...
...dozen Manhattan brokerage offices snapped off their radios, wastebasketed their sunflower buttons and stalked out for breakfast. They had opened their offices early in the hope that some alert customers, on the basis of election returns, would want to buy or sell on the London Stock Exchange when that market opened at 5 a.m. E. S. T. Their hope for London orders proved almost as barren as their hope for a Landon victory...
...Critic Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent-minded to be a good battler. On one of his lecture tours he sent his wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted to being rolled in a barrel, roped over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces...
...hunt among companies of the sort the applicant wants to work for and where no overture has been made by the employer still constitutes the foundation of all employment. Here is employment denuded of all personal ties and placed on a purely business basis. The applicant determines the market for his services within a fairly narrow scope and sells to that market by sustained and systematic effort until he gets his job. This channel of approach should form the back log of any Senior's campaign to establish himself in the business world...
DURGIN PARK--Market Dining rooms for over sixty years. Quality food and service without equal...